Kids

I originally published this post in 2011, but the information is still relevant for families traveling with small children. Our family has not had a travelling vacation since...
Bookworm is graduating this year. (How did that happen?!) In the fall, he began applying to colleges. However, we decided early on he wouldn’t apply to...
This post contains affiliate links. The last time we went out freely in public was on March 13, 2020. Since then, we’ve largely remained at home. We are blessed that my husband can work from home and...
So, Bookworm needs braces. We’ve known this day would come, but we kind of buried our head in the sand and ignored it.
However, now that he is almost...
We have a limited income, but quite a bit of money goes for our kids. Until just this year, Bookworm had attended private schools all his life, first...
Bookworm is starting to earn more for his allowance, and at 9, he’s becoming more aware of saving for what he wants. For instance, every spring, just a few weeks before...
Last year, we headed down to Mulberry Lane Farm, the only farm in Illinois to offer u-pick organic strawberries and picked and bought 43.5 pounds of...
A few years back when my son was just in first grade, he suffered from a serious incident that happened to him at school. I’m not at liberty...